📺On January 5, 1998, the 'Dancing Baby' debuted on 'Ally McBeal'

That’s not a real baby. It was a great attempt to fool the audience but it is just CGI. It’s not a real baby.

The duality of man

One of the first Internet memes. It was a weird one.

Without any sound and having never watched this show, I'll assume this is the baby Ally aborted for the sake of her lawyer career.

Insane how huge this was.

I never got the premise of this show. I just remember something about anorexia .

I use to love this show so much.

Ally McBeal fans loved this guy before it became mainstream

I'm so old I remember reading about this in a magazine. It was like "Hey, if you haven't been on-line in a while, you should check it out. There's some great new jokes, like the Dancing Baby, which is really getting popular!"

Is that the ghost of her aborted baby?

Woulda been a crazy twist if that baby starting killing everybody

Weird times

I never gave two thoughts about this when it was on the air, but was she schizophrenic?

It hitting me that 1998 was 28 years ago 🥴.

You really just had to be there

I watched this show for a bit when it was a serious law drama with a side of "She's hot and Quirky.." Then it became a comedy show more than anything so I stopped watching it. And she was really cute..

Everyone was sending the dancing baby clip to everyone else. It was crazy there for a few months. I still can't listen to "Hooked on a Feeling".

baby was still less janky than the one in twilight......

My email attachments for the next 5 years...

so THIS is where it came from. i saw this baby dancing to everything imaginable back in the day, an og meme fr. didn't know it was from a literal tv show WHAT

@Alchemist319 The original AI baby.

Jump the Shark moment

Oh wowwww i forgot about this. This was like a huge thing for god knows what reason

The Dancing Baby was essentially the first meme, unless you maybe want to count the Flying Toasters screensaver.

I remember watching this episode with my parents. Back when people actually sat around and watched tv shows together. We were all rooting for RDJ to stay clean in real life.

Ancient meme Artifact of a lost civilization

That was pretty much the end of the meme. It was cool when it was just floating around the internet but when it showed up on a TV show all the kids were like, "Oh, it's not cool anymore."

Ally McWho?

@grok I never watched this show because it was pure garbage, but my curiosity is getting the best of me, what was the point of the “dancing baby”? Did it represent a baby she probably aborted

Tuesday morning at work.. we’d gather and talk about last night’s Ally McBeal.. loved it and loved Vonda Shepard’s music

i actually liked that show before that gay shit happened